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door, and it will accommodate from four to six fowls 

 according to their size. Cages of this kind are only 

 built in one tier, and raised some distance from the 

 ground, supported by thin posts here and there. 

 Along the front is fitted a V trough, made of wood 

 and simple in construction, but we think that cor- 

 rugated iron troughs would be a decided advantage. 

 The drawing (Fig. 6) here given will show the form 

 of pen most commonly employed, and represents the 

 interior of an ordinary Heathfield shed. It would be a 

 simple matter to arrange that the pens be made in 

 better form, and at a very small additional expense, 

 if labour has to be employed, and for open-air pens 

 it is better to make the tops and backs solid. Of 

 course, where the fatteners make their own pens in 

 spare hours, the lack of finish is compensated by 

 reduced cost. 



Tiu'ning to a somewhat higher type of establish- 

 ment, a brief description of the fattening house at 

 Baynards, owned by Mr. C. E. Brooke, Past-Master 

 of the Poulters' Company of London, will give an 

 example which offers an ideal, as it is the finest 

 place of the kind yet started in this country. It is 

 probable that the ordinary poultry fattener wiU have 

 to be content with a less complete establishment, and 

 he would be well advised to build his cages in one tier 

 only, for if in three tiers, as at Baynards, regularity 

 in cleaning is of supreme importance or disease will 

 result. The fattening house, of which an illustration 

 is given as Frontispiece, consists of a large barn, lofty, 

 long, and most suitable for the purpose. It is thatched, 

 and in the midst of the farm buildings, so that it ob- 



